Nanette Barragan

Nanette Diaz Barragan (15 September 1976-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 44) from 3 January 2017, succeeding Janice Hahn.

Biography
Nanette Diaz Barragan was born in Los Angeles, California in 1976, the daughter of Mexican immigrants. She served as Executive Director of the Gillian S. Fuller Foundation during her college years and until 2003, when she became an extern to a California Supreme Court justice. During the 1990s, she directed President Bill Clinton's outreach to African-Americans, and she worked as an attorney during the 2000s. She was later elected as the first Latina member of the Hermosa Beach City Council, and she was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2016. She was a member of the Progressive Democrats.